Chickahominy Bluff

Chickahominy Bluff is a cliff overlooking the Chickahominy River in Hanover County, Virginia located across the river from Mechanicsville. On 26 June 1862, during the Seven Days' Battles, Robert E. Lee massed much of his Confederate army at Chickahominy Bluff and surged over the river in a combined operation with Stonewall Jackson, leading to the Battle of Beaver Dam Creek. As a staging point for the Confederates, Chickahominy Bluff was fortified with earthen defensive works, and it later became a national park.